triller
English
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A 19th-century watercolour of a pied triller (Lalage nigra) flying near a durian tree (Durio zibethinus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, National Museum of Singapore
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
triller (plural trillers)
- A small passerine bird of the genus Lalage belonging to the cuckoo-shrike family Campephagidae, so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds.
- One who or that which trills.
- 2010, Michel Debost, The Simple Flute: From A-Z, page 255:
- When the left hand is the triller, it might seem more difficult to stabilize with the right, which is mostly off the flute.
French
Pronunciation
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Conjugation
Conjugation of triller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | triller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trillant /tʁi.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trillé /tʁi.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trille /tʁij/ |
trilles /tʁij/ |
trille /tʁij/ |
trillons /tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
trillez /tʁi.je/ |
trillent /tʁij/ |
| imperfect | trillais /tʁi.jɛ/ |
trillais /tʁi.jɛ/ |
trillait /tʁi.jɛ/ |
trillions /tʁij.jɔ̃/ |
trilliez /tʁij.je/ |
trillaient /tʁi.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trillai /tʁi.je/ |
trillas /tʁi.ja/ |
trilla /tʁi.ja/ |
trillâmes /tʁi.jam/ |
trillâtes /tʁi.jat/ |
trillèrent /tʁi.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | trillerai /tʁij.ʁe/ |
trilleras /tʁij.ʁa/ |
trillera /tʁij.ʁa/ |
trillerons /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/ |
trillerez /tʁij.ʁe/ |
trilleront /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/ |
trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/ |
trillerait /tʁij.ʁɛ/ |
trillerions /tʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trilleriez /tʁi.jə.ʁje/ |
trilleraient /tʁij.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trille /tʁij/ |
trilles /tʁij/ |
trille /tʁij/ |
trillions /tʁij.jɔ̃/ |
trilliez /tʁij.je/ |
trillent /tʁij/ |
| imperfect2 | trillasse /tʁi.jas/ |
trillasses /tʁi.jas/ |
trillât /tʁi.ja/ |
trillassions /tʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
trillassiez /tʁi.ja.sje/ |
trillassent /tʁi.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trille /tʁij/ |
— | trillons /tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
trillez /tʁi.je/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “triller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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